William Asukwo Email & Phone Number

Worcester, Ma, Us

Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Currently working with a data-driven team, while we consistently deliver value bi-weekly through our sprints. Other responsibilities include the following;• Scheduling and facilitation of all the scrum ceremonies while implementing the instructions from the scrum guide.• Prioritizing of requests from business through a master log tracker using Microsoft excel on a shared drive.• Engaging the team with non-scrum related activities like the virtual hangout to bring about team building, camaraderie and fun outside our day-to-day schedules.• Partnering with the Agile coaches and participating in workshops that foster continuous improvement among the team e.g. Agility Health Training & Assessment.• Collaborating with other scrum masters, squad leads and scrum teams to facilitate events within my product area e.g. Care logic.• Joining the interview panel to dialogue and question candidates interested in joining Seven Hills Foundation• Continuing to empower the team by having them assign work to themselves with the goal of establishing self-management.• Being the team’s biggest cheerleader by continuously encouraging transparency, inspection and adaptation• Making conflict resolution priority among team members that have issues so as not to slow down team’s performance.• Encouraging team members to take breaks in-between work to reduce the probability of burnouts.• Shielding the team from external interferences that could possibly reduce sprint efficiency and affecttheir velocity.

New England Based

• Orchestrated and executed local business and entrepreneur events, optimizing exposure and networking opportunities for heightened community engagement.• Oversaw Afro Brunch comprehensively, utilizing agile methodologies to monitor workflows and ensure goal achievement, while also leading complex projects from conception to implementation with adherence to industry-specific standards.• Helped numerous establishments increase their overall revenue by over 50%+ through the successful execution of numerous networking events with an average attendance rate of 500 people from an extremely diverse and vast cultural diaspora.• Led data analysis efforts at Afro Brunch to inform strategic decisions by examining market trends, customer preferences, and event metrics, identifying growth opportunities and optimizing resource allocation. Established a thorough performance measurement framework for Afro Brunch events,• Organized and facilitated daily stand-up meet, reviews, estimation, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, burndown tracking and other Scrum-related meetings.• Worked collaboratively with Business and IT partner teams to support development and software delivery.• Coached the development team and stakeholders on how to use Agile/Scrum practices at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.

Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Leading scrum teams to develop the Barton Associates marketplace; a web and mobile application where healthcare providers and healthcare systems can list their needs bridging the gap of healthcare provider staffing around the country. Other responsibilities include:• Facilitating scrum events and ceremonies through the agile framework.• Ensuring delivery of products incrementally using the Inspect and Adapt cycles.• Driving high performance and collaboration in teams with the aim of ensuring accountability,constructive interaction and ultimately become self-organizing teams.• Coaching the team on writing user stories that ensures team focus and careful prioritization of workevery sprint.• Coached teams self-organize and self-manage.• Proactively identifying, managing, and communicating impediments for rapid and expedited resolution• Facilitating the identification of delivery-focused solutions and addressing the true root causes of issues• Driving both co-located and remote scrum teams in ensuring the sprint commitment is as accurate aspossible while maximizing the likelihood of timely deliveries.• Encouraging over-communication while ensuring a shared understanding of dependencies betweenteammates on each team.• Observing & monitoring of Work-In-Progress while quantifying the inspect and adapt cycle at the scrumlevel.• Extensive use of Jira and confluence in issue tracking and managing of projects during the entire sprint.

Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Served as a Scrum Master in a development Team to help build and implement healthcare informatics systems, an application for Umass Chan Medical School used to analyze intricate data, integrate electronic health records (EHR), and utilize several different applications to achieve the desired output. I also worked with a Scrum team on internal systems upgrade for documentation migration from analog to digital on the web and mobile application. Other responsibilities are as follows:• Worked with the Product owner to align teams with the product vision, sprint goals, and other necessary information.• Created an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts.• Championed continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity; coached organization to conduct continuous improvement events.• Communicated organizational impediments to leadership; cleared impediments for the team.• Coached product owners in creation and maintenance of the product backlog, including empiricalplanning.• Brought ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation and so on tohelp the team become a high-performance team.

Remote

• Performed risk assessment by analyzing current risks and identifying potential risks that affect the organization.• Reviewed and reconciled various insurance program billings while also reviewing insurance policies to ensure accuracy.• Preparation of insurance premium budget allocations of all lines of insurance coverage• Participation in claim reviews and update reports• Conducted Risk analysis and developed mitigation plans. Performed monthly updates, quality checks ofdata and distribution of regular monthly loss reports in the department’s claims database.• Managed non-casualty claim updates in the risk management database and provided quarterly reportswith detailed analysis.